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Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.

Assail :: Assail (v. t.) To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery..

Battle :: Battle (v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.

Assailant :: Assailant (n.) One who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer..

Assassinate :: Assassinate (v. t.) To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly..

Tenable :: Tenable (a.) Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument..

Violent :: Violent (n.) An assailant.

Wassail :: Wassail (a.) Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl..

Scoff :: Scoff (v. t.) To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.

Impugn :: Impugn (v. t.) To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose.

Vulnerable :: Vulnerable (a.) Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; assailable; as, a vulnerable reputation..

Wassail :: Wassail (v. i.) To hold a wassail; to carouse.

Assailed :: Assailed (imp. & p. p.) of Assai.

Assailant :: Assailant (a.) Assailing; attacking.

Assailment :: Assailment (n.) The act or power of assailing; attack; assault.

Bepommel :: Bepommel (v. t.) To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing..

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Assault :: Assault (n.) To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration..

Peal :: Peal (v. t.) To assail with noise or loud sounds.

Offensive :: Offensive (a.) Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons..

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